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ORCHIS specrasiuis. 
Showy American Orchis. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA—Nar. Orv. ORCHIDE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Corolla ringens. Labellum basi subtus calcaratum. Glandule 
(1-2) pedicellorum pollinis incluse cucullo unico.—Br, 
; od 
Orchis spectabilis ; radicibus fasciculatis labello ovato indiviso crenato 
obtuso, petalis conniventibus, cornu compresso clavato germine bre- 
viore, bracteis flore longioribus, caule aphyllo. 
O. spectabilis, Linn. Sp. Pl. p.1337.—Witp. Sp. Pl. v- iv. p. 36.—Pursu, 
Fi. Amer. Sept. v. ii. p. 587.—Brown, in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 190. 
O. humilis, Micu. Fl. Amer. v. ii. p. 155. : 
isting “of several thick, fleshy, brown, tortuose, simple, fasciculated 
fibres. Leaves two, opposite, both springing from the root, and from 
four to six inches in length, broadly obovate, obtuse, pale green, waved, 
glabrous, with a central nerve, and several parallel ribs or lines, most vi- 
sible on the underside ; the base tapers down into a long narrow kind of 
f . The colour of the upper surface is of a rather deep, but yel- 
lowish-green, the under side paler. 
Scape about equal in length with the leaves, acutely quadrangular, or, ac 
cording to Nurra.t, pentangular, (a circumstance perhaps 
on the number of flowers). In the present instance, the flowers are four 
in number, each subtended by a foliaceous, lanceolate bractea, longer 
than the flower. Petals of an uniform paleish purple color, conniving 
into a galea ; the two lateral ones ovato-acuminate, rather the largest and 
free ; the three superior ones united. The dip is large, pendant, ovate, 
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